Author Archive: Retro

In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the age of 10 or so on as they physically develop. The family chauffeur looks out for them and covers up their indiscretions. Bizzare murders occur as relatives and their lawyer arrive to dispossess the family of its home. Ed-Woodian Cult Classic.

Maverick sexploitation filmmaker Doris Wishman’s 1965 cheapie Bad Girls Go to Hell is a sexual nightmare that unfolds with the insouciance and inspiration of a child’s drawing. A comic-book variation on Sade’s Justine, it’s the tale of Meg Kelton (a darkly Monroe-like GiGi Darlene), a sexually neglected Boston housewife who must flee to New York after she accidentally kills the janitor who raped her. There her melancholy innocence is violated, again and again, as she is taken in by seeming Good Samaritans only to be exploited by leering, lecherous men and women.

Filming in glorious and gritty black and white, offers us the beautiful and talented Gigi Darlene as an everywoman in 1960’s urban America suffering the birth-pains of the sexual revolution. Take a peek at this, if you ever get the opportunity, to see an example of the art that influenced pulp film-makers of the 1960’s and 1970’s, John Waters, and many musicians [...]

Squad of beautiful government agents tries to catch saboteurs.

Squad of beautiful government agents tries to catch saboteurs.

A crazed artist who believes himself to be the reincarnation of a murderous vampire kills young women, then boils their bodies in a vat.

Carradine is an aged vampire who has a bevy of vampiric beauties who lure many of their customers back to his lair. A pair of virile young Navy sailors get mixed up in their shenanigans.

Cloaked avenger battles against criminal gangs. English subtitles.